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Numbers 23:5

American Standard Version

And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

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Numbers 23:5 in other translations

Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Numbers 23:5 · World English Bible

Numbers 23:5 in context

  1. 3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.
  2. 4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
  3. 5And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
  4. 6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
  5. 7And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.